Here’s everything to know about one of NASA’s most dramatic missions and its significance in space exploration history. Apollo 13 Spacecraft Commander James A. Lovell, Jr. prepares to assemble ...

Gemini 12 crewmates Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell celebrate aboard the USS Wasp on November 15, 1966, at the conclusion of their four-day mission. Many artifacts from Lovell’s space career are in ...

Up in space, Jim Lovell suspected that he and his crew mates ... If that had happened then we might have given up’.” Although down at mission control medics told the crew to try and get ...

After being selected as an astronaut in 1962, he took part in several historic missions ... The article Lake Forest Space Pioneer Jim Lovell Celebrated With Statewide Honor appeared first on ...

Astronaut Lovell first named the feature from lunar orbit as he mapped potential landing sites for the upcoming Apollo 11 mission. After scanning the Sea of Tranquility’s coast, Jim Lovell ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- One of the world's most legendary explorers, James Lovell ... As an astronaut, Lovell had several missions that make up the fabric of historic firsts. He was a part of the ...

Over the next several years, astronauts underwent rigorous training. Jim Lovell piloted the Gemini 7 space mission in 1965 and he served as command pilot of the Gemini 12 mission in November 1966.

James Lovell, a retired astronaut who flew two Apollo and two Gemini missions for NASA ... bay of tall windows is “my father’s favorite space in the house,” said Susan Lovell, one of ...

The Netflix documentary 'Apollo 13: Survival' gives a rare look at Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and ... of NASA's most monumental and near-fatal space missions decades after the event.

James A. Lovell Jr., on his assignments as a naval ... was not nearly as newsworthy as previous space missions. Television networks didn’t offer wall-to-wall coverage and none of them carried ...

The Netflix documentary 'Apollo 13: Survival' gives a rare look at Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise’s time in space The latter offers a fresh look at the mission’s harrowing events ...